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Monday, April 18, 2005

RootsWeb: Melungeon-L Hawkins Archives Project

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From: 'Penny Ferguson' pennyferguson@alltel.net

Subject: Hawkins Archives Project

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:22:58 -0400

This came through the Hawkins email list as a record found today from the Hawkins Archives Project.

'28 Sept 1847 Lewis Minor came into court and makes oath that he cannot safely come to trial without the presence of John Netherland Esq. his council, who is absent. Therefore pray a continuance not for delay, but for justice. Lewis Minor'


Below is written by John Netherlands daughter:

'By the Constitution of 1834 all persons of color were deprived of the franchise in Tennessee,"

Virginia-Tennessee Boundary

Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-64

Tennessee Country, 1748-1775

Holston, Watauga, and the Tennessee Country, 1748-75

East Tennessee Historical Society Hosts Genealogy Conference and Family Reunion Celebration

Eastern Tennessee, 1865

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